cartoon -
A kind of drawing done to get
people thinking, angry, laughing, or otherwise amused, often accompanied
by a caption. A cartoon
usually has simple lines,
uses basic colors, and tells a story
in one or a series of pictures
called framesorpanels.

Scott Adams (American, contemporary), Dilbert,
a strip which first appeared in 1989, printed in 50 papers then,
and in 1,900 by 1999. Scott Adams was the first cartoonist to
put an email address in a comic strip.

There is an older sense in which
a cartoon was a preliminary drawing made the size
of the final work. Michelangelo transferred the images
of his cartoons onto the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the
making of his fresco.